Tautomerization, dependent on the

The optical properties of the 8-o-PhOH-purine adducts have provided insight into their ground-state structures at the nucleoside level. These adducts have the ability to phototautomerize, through an excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) process, to generate the keto form. This tautomerization depends on the presence of a intramolecular hydrogen (H)-bond between the phenolic OH and the imine nitrogen (N-7). Figure 14 shows normalized absorption and emission spectra for 8-o-PhOH-dG and 8-o-PhOH-dA in aqueous buffered water and hexane. In water, 8-o-PhOH-dG shows only enol emission at 395 nm, while 8-o-PhOH-dA shows enol emission at 374 nm and phenolate emission at 447 nm. In hexane, both adducts show keto emission at 475 nm 8-o-PhOH-dA also shows a small amount of enol emission and no phenolate emission. These results show that in water, the intramolecular H-bond... 

Disubstituted 1/f-imidazoles are classic examples of prototropic annular tautomerism. Depending on the nature of substituents, one tautomer may predominate over the other, as in the case of trifluoromethyl-substituted imidazole 50, where form 50A is the major component in solution in DMSO or CH3CN. In an unusual case, the two tautomers, 4-nitro-5-methoxyimidazole 136A and 5-nitro-4-methoxyimidazole 136B, were found as a 50 50 mixture in the crystal structure (Scheme 30) <2004AXB191>. 

In mordant dyes, phenols, naphthols, and enolizable carbonyl compounds, such as pyrazolones, are generally the couplers. As a rule, 2 1 metal complexes are formed ia the afterchroming process. A typical example of a mordant dye is Eriochrome Black T (18b) which is made from the important dyestuff iatermediate nitro-l,2,4-acid, 4-amiQO-3-hydroxy-7-nitro-l-naphthalenesulfonic acid [6259-63-8]. Eriochrome Red B [3618-63-1] (49) (Cl Mordant Red 7 Cl 18760) (1, 2,4-acid — l-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone) is another example. The equiUbrium of the two tautomeric forms depends on the nature of the solvent. 

The mean chemical shifts of A- unsubstituted pyrazoles have been used to determine the tautomeric equilibrium constant, but the method often leads to erroneous conclusions (76AHC(Sl)l) unless the equilibrium has been slowed down sufficiently to observe the signals of individual tautomers (Section 4.04.1.5.1). When acetone is used as solvent it is necessary to bear in mind the possibility (depending on the acidity of the pyrazole and the temperature) of observing the signals of the 1 1 adduct (55) whose formation is thermodynamically favoured by lowering the solution temperature (79MI40407). A similar phenomenon is observed when SO2 is used as solvent. 

From a general point of view, the tautomeric studies can be divided into 12 areas (Figure 20) depending on the migrating entity (proton or other groups, alkyl, acyl, metals. ..), the physical state of the study (solid, solution or gas phase) and the thermodynamic (equilibrium constants) or the kinetic (isomerization rates) approach. 

In a neutral azole, the apparent rate of formation of an A-substituted derivative depends on the rate of reaction of a given tautomer and on the tautomeric equilibrium constant. For example, with a 3(5)-substituted pyrazole such as (199), which exists as a mixture of two tautomers (199a) and (199b) in equilibrium, the product composition [(200)]/[(201)] is a function of the rate constants Ha and fcs, as well as of the composition of the tautomeric mixture (Scheme 16) <76AHC(Si)l). 

The acetyl transfer reactions of acetylated pyrazolones (acylotropy) have been carefully studied by Arakawa and Miyasaka (74CPB207,74CPB214) (Section 4.04.2.1.3(x)). Methylation of 3-methyl-l-phenyl-4-phenylazo-5-pyrazolone (402) yields, depending on the experimental conditions, the N- and the O-methylated derivatives (483) and (484) (66BSF2990). These derivatives have been used as model compounds in a study of the tautomerism of (402) (structure 139 Section 4.04.1.5.2). 

For consistency, structures are drawn as the isoquinoline-1,4-diol throughout regardless of tautomer drawn in the original reference. The actual tautomeric structure is dependent on the pH of the solution. See Caswell, L. R. Campbell, R. D. J. Org. Chem. 1961, 26,4175. 

The chemical methods can be subdivided into two interrelated groups (a) those which depend on the reactivity of a particular structural feature, e.g., a carbon-carbon double bond or an enolic hydroxyl group, that is present in only one of the tautomeric forms and (b) those which involve relating the structures of reaction products to the structures of the starting materials. 

Flitsch and coworkers investigated the acid (TFA)-catalyzed tautomeric equilibria of 2,5-dialkylpyrroles of type 190 (78CB2401). The equilibrium depends on the substitution in these compounds. 

Ring-chain tautomerism was observed in a series of l,2,3,6-tetrahydro-l,2, 4-triazine 4-oxides 5 in nonpolar solvents (e.g., CCI4) by NMR spectroscopy. Depending on the nature of substituents R and R, the ratios of the cyclic form of 1,2,4-triazine 5a to the open-chain form of hydrazone 5b were found to be up to 45 55 (77ZOR2617). 

The classical theory of methylation with diazomethane was developed by Arndt from a different basis. It depends on the postulate (which can be traced back to von Pechmann " 0 of direct methylation mobile hydrogen in an acid compound is directly replaced by the methyl group, i.e., the methyl group appears in the place which the hydrogen previously occupied. For the reaction of tautomeric substances with diazomethane, the following equation is applicable ... 

Thianaphtheneqiiinone - (109) and diazomethane give a different reaction from that found with isatin, A -methylisatin and coumarandione. In as far as crystalline products could be isolated, the ring expansion occurs here between the sulfur and the carbonyl group in the 2-position. Depending on the solvent, there are formed 3-hydroxy-thiochromone (110), its 0-methyl derivative (111), or (presumably by attack on the 3-keto group of the tautomeric 3,4-diketo form of 110), 3,3 -epoxy-3-methylthiochromone (108). 

Annular tautomerism in tetrahydropyrimidines has also been studied for a few N-unsubstituted tetrahydropyrimidines bearing OH groups at the 6 position. X-Ray analysis of bicyclic 58 (R = H) revealed that its crystals are composed of two independent tautomeric molecules, 58a and 58b (Scheme 24), connected by three hydrogen bonds (86JHC705). According to NMR spectroscopy, the same tautomers 58a/58b (R = H, Me) coexist in solution, their ratios being dependent on the solvent polarity. 

Tautomers are defined as isomers which are readily interconvertible. It is clear that the distinction between tautomerism and ordinary isomerism is very vague indeed, and that it depends on the interpretation of the adverb readily. It is customary to designate as tautomers those isomers whose half-lives (with respect to interconversion) are under ordinary circumstances less than the times required for laboratory operations to be carried out (some minutes or hours), so that the separation of the isomers from the equilibrium mixtures is difficult. The distinction between tautomers and ordinary isomers has no molecular significance whatever, since it is dependent on the accidental ordinary rate of human activity. 

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